More than 135 of these poems have been recorded. The Angel Island Immigration Station was in operation from 1910 to 1940. During World War II, the site was used to hold prisoners of war and as a ...

Numerous carvings and writings in several languages have been found on the barracks walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station. The overwhelming majority of these remarkable writings are poems ...

The Oakland Ballet’s newest performance, the “Angel Island Project," hopes to depict the experiences of Chinese immigrants ...

“These poems were not written for us. They were written for themselves, to express what they were feeling,” says Angel Island ...

some wrote poignant poems, still legible today. “The historic detention of immigrants at Angel Island is interconnected with surveillance efforts along the U.S. southern border,” said AIISF ...